A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'becoming'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
becomingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.487
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of becoming in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
A good thing today was becoming an 'aunty' to the newest memb(2014)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
reflected in these marches is becoming a kind o cos play cliche. I p (2022) twitter link
I think you are unfortunately becoming a litmus test for U.K. attitu (2020) twitter link

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
led ony ambitions I had aboot becoming the new ‘Brian Cox’ of ling(2020)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
again a take your points - becoming clearer now (2020) twitter link

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
n wis nou weel on his wey tae becoming a journeyman stanemason himse on page 75

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General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
@murdo_fraser @scotgov You're becoming less tory aggressive, I'm sta(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ife but it didnae stop me fae becoming a principal teacher for ower (2020)